Tighten one's belt, use resources carefully
English: retrench
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
berhematBahasa Indonesia
retrench, scrimp, skimp, stint
Less common
#14,317 of the corpus · 3.7 per million words · 15,820 occurrences
From hemat (ber-) · common, #4,323
Verb
Subsist on a meager allowance
English: scrimp, stint, skimp
Bahasa: berjimat
Less certain link between this word and this sense.